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The original of this sampler is held in the Museum of the George Müller Charitable Trust, Bristol England.  The reproduction has been worked on 40 count cream linen using one strand of the Pearsall's spun silk. It is a faithful copy and includes Sophia's mistakes.

Anna Sophia Bailey was born on the 5th January 1865 and baptized in March 1865 at paddington.  Her parents were Eli Bailey, a private in the 12th Regiment, Foot and Mary Jane Geeves.

Sophia  was given into the orphanage by her relatives and later left the orphanage as a general servant to a family in London in 1882, so the sampler was finished in her last year at the orphanage.